随着我国旅游业的迅猛发展,越来越多的人加入到了旅游事业当中,尤其是2008年北京奥运会的举办,对旅游从业人员的英语水平提出了更高的要求。为适应这一快速发展的形势,旅游从业人员仅有一般的外语知识还不够,还必须学会一些专业外语知识,掌握实用英语语用技能,才能更好地应对各种旅游活动。另一方面,编者在多年的旅游英语教学中,深感不少旅游专业的学生难以灵活地使用地道的英语。为此,根据教学需要,编者参阅了国内外诸多书籍,结合多年的教学经验以及从各大实习旅行社收集来的资料,编写了《旅游英语》。
Part I Tourist Attractions
Section 1 Historic Towns
Part A Dialog: The Historic Town of Lijiang
Part B Reading: The Historic Town of Pingyao
Part C Exercises
Section2 Bridges
Part A Dialog: The Broken Bridge
Part B Reading: Zhaozhou Bridge
Part C Exercises
Section 3 Caves
Part A Dialog: The NineDragon Cave
Part B Reading: Dunhuang Mogao Grottoes
Part C Exercises
Section 4 Folk Culture Village
Part A Dialog: Touring Guilin
Part B Reading: China Folk Culture Village.
Part C Exercises
Section 5 Gardens
Part A Dialog: TraditionalStyle Gardens
Part B Reading: The Humble Administrators Garden
Part C Exercises
Section 6 Historic Sites
Part A Dialog: The Great Wall
Part B Reading: The Terracotta Warriors and Horses
Part C Exercises
Section 7 Lakes
Part A Dialog: The West Lake
Part B Reading: The Poyang Lake
Part C Exercises
Section 8 Mountains
Part A Dialog: Climbing Mt. Huang
Part B Reading: Mt. Jiuhua
Part C Exercises
Section9 Pagodas
Part A Dialog: Leifeng Pagoda
Part B Reading: Wild Goose Pagoda
Part C Exercises
Section 10 Palaces
Part A Dialog: The Summer Palace
Part B Reading: The Forbidden City
Part C Exercises
Section 11 Patriotic Education Bases
PartA Dialog: Jinggangshan
PartB Reading:Yanan
Part C Exercises
Section 12 Pavilions
Part A Dialog: Yellow Crane Pavilion
Part B Reading: The Penglai Pavilion
Part C Exercises
Section 13 Rivers
Part A Dialog: Hukou Waterfalls of the Yellow River
Part B Reading: The Yangtze River
Part C Exercises
Section 14 Summer Resorts
PartA Dialog:Chengde
Part B Reading: Beidaihe
PartC Exercises
Section15 Temples
Part A Dialog: Shaolin Temple
Part B Reading: Confucius Temple and the Cemetery ofConfucius
Part C Exercises
Section 16 Valleies
Part A Dialog: Jiuzhaigou Valley
Part B Reading:Shenzhen Happy Valley
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Part 2 Tourism Services
The most representative of Shandong Cuisine is, perhaps, Beijing Roast Duck. Beijing Roast Duck is prepared from specially-bred Beijing cramed duck with a unique roastingprocess which gives it a perfect combination of colour, aroma, taste, a crisp thin skin, and adelicious flavour.
Shandong Cuisine has been influenced by the "Confucius Family Dishes", which arerenowned for their taste, aroma, colour and shape. Most famous ones are Jadeite Shark Fin,Agate Sea Cucumber, Shrimps Wearing Jade Belts and Eight Immortals Crossing the Sea.
Guangdong Cuisine Guangdong Cuisine, known as Cantonese Cuisine in the West, was developed inGuangzhou, Huizhou and Chaozhou and Hainan Island. As the climate of Guangdong is hot,these dishes are fresh, tender and lightly seasoned. The raw material for Guangdong Cuisineis very rich, which includes snake, cat and pangolin. Cooked snake is considered a delicacy.The most famlous snake dish is the Dragon and Tiger Locked in Battle, in which cobra,leopard, cat and over twenty spices are used. Roast snake with Chrysanthemum Blooms isprovided in autumn. The dish is creamy in colour and is garnished with beautiful petals of chrysan themum, mushrooms, and various flavourigns. Other delicacies in Guangdong Cuisineinclude Roast Suckling Pig, Duck Web in Oyster Sauce and Braised Chicken Feet with WildHerbs.
Jiangsu Cuisine
Developed from the local food of the four cities, Suzhou, Yangzhou, Nanjing and Zhenjiang, Jiangsu Cuisine is popular in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River. It is characteristically sweet. Sweet-Sour Fish, Sweet-Sour Pork and Sweet-Sour Soup are common dishes at the table of the ordinary families. Cooking techniques can be varied, butquick frying and stir-frying, simmering and steaming are more often used. Special attention isgiven to the section of the ingredients, cutting, and seasoning according to the different seasons of the year. The most popular dishes are Sweet-Sour Boneless Fried Fish, Watermelon Chicken, Salted Duck and Creamed Abalone Soup.
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